(Paris) Belgian singer Claude Barzotti, author of hit songs from the 1980s like Le Rital or Aime-moi, died at his home from cancer, his manager announced on Saturday to AFP.

The singer-songwriter with a slightly hoarse voice “died at 69 in his bed, surrounded by his two daughters”, in a town between Brussels and Charleroi, Belgium, said Laurent Comtat.

“Barzotti preferred to be called a singer of emotion rather than a romantic. He was a lively flayed man, a real sensitive, who drank to fight his stage fright, ”he said.

“I am rital and I remain so”, also sang Barzotti in one of his successes Le Rital, where the one who was born near Charleroi on July 23, 1953 evoked his origins. His father was an Italian miner.